Letters
Solving AI Problems With Civility
I’m grateful to the AI community for the friendships it has brought me and the benefits it has brought to billions of people. But members of the AI community don’t always honor one another.
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Machine Learning Research
Long-Haul Chatbot: Facebook Chatbot is Able to Carry on Long Conversations
Facebook released a chatbot that summarizes dialog on the fly and uses the summary to generate further repartee.
Business
Price Prediction Turns Perilous: How Covid Broke Zillow's Pricing Algorithm
The real-estate website Zillow bought and sold homes based on prices estimated by an algorithm — until Covid-19 confounded the model’s predictive power. Zillow, whose core business is providing real-estate information for prospective buyers, shut down its house-flipping division after...
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: Has AI Become Unaffordable?, Covid Confounds Price Prediction, Face Recognition Algorithms Are Not Equal, This Chatbot Knows How To Google
The physical world is full of unique details that differ from place to place, person to person, and item to item. In contrast, the world of software is built on abstractions that make for relatively uniform coding environments and user experiences.
Letters
Making Software For a Heterogeneous World
The physical world is full of unique details that differ from place to place, person to person, and item to item. In contrast, the world of software is built on abstractions that make for relatively uniform coding environments and user...
Tech & Society
Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies
The cost of training top-performing machine learning models has grown beyond the reach of smaller companies.
Machine Learning Research
This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers
Chatbots often respond to human input with incorrect or nonsensical answers. Why not enable them to search for helpful information?
Tech & Society
Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems
Face recognition algorithms have come under scrutiny for misidentifying individuals. A U.S. government agency tested over 1,000 of them to see which are the most reliable.
Tech & Society
Facebook Doesn't See Your Face: Facebook Disables Face Recognition Services
Facebook disabled face recognition for uploaded photos and videos as well as its retrospective Memories service and promised to delete over 1 billion individual face recognition templates.
Machine Learning Research
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.
Letters
How To Unlock AI Value
On Monday, Landing AI (where I’m CEO) announced the close of a $57 million Series A funding round. The investment enables the company to continue building its data-centric MLOps platform for computer vision, with a focus on manufacturing visual inspection.
Business
GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users
Microsoft is making GPT-3 available to selected customers through its Azure cloud service.